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  1. 1 Formatting a disk for use in FreeBSD
  2. 2 Using pw to add a group and user in FreeBSD
  3. 3 View processes, grep out by user and then kill all their PIDs
  4. 4 Sort a list of processes by users into more

Formatting a disk for use in FreeBSD

to sysadmin freebsd installation by andrewlkho on Jun 01, 2005
Given that this isn't something I do regularly, it's handy to have the commands to hand so I don't have to scroll through man pages trying to remember how to do it.

Clear the disk
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=1k count=1


Initialise it
# fdisk -BI ad1


Label it, then edit the labels created
# bsdlabel -B -w ad1s1 auto
# bsdlabel -e ad1s1


Format it with a filesystem
# newfs /dev/ad1s1e


Make directories and mount as appropriate, and you're done!

Using pw to add a group and user in FreeBSD

to sysadmin pw groupadd useradd passwd freebsd by jason on May 26, 2005
Using "textdrive" as an example

pw groupadd textdrive
pw useradd textdrive -m -c "Main Textdrive account" -d /home/textdrive -s /bin/tcsh -G textdrive -k /usr/share/skel/


Then set the password:

passwd textdrive

View processes, grep out by user and then kill all their PIDs

to awk ps sysadmin grep kill by jason on May 26, 2005 
ps axu | grep user | kill -9 `awk ‘{print $2}’`
Showing 11 - 14 of 14 total

On This Page:

  1. 1 Formatting a disk for use in FreeBSD
  2. 2 Using pw to add a group and user in FreeBSD
  3. 3 View processes, grep out by user and then kill all their PIDs
  4. 4 Sort a list of processes by users into more